A92147:915
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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And as Nature, so the Law saith, When the losses are such as can never be repaired, as Death, Mutilation, less of Chastity, Quoniam ⟨p. 338⟩facta infecta fieri nequeunt, things of that kind once done, can never be undone, we are to prevent the enemy, l. Zonat. tract. defens. par. 3. l. in bello §. factae de capit. notat. Gloss. in l. si quis provocatione. If the King send an Irish Rebel to cast me over a bridge, and drown me in a water, I am not to do nothing, while the Kings emissary first cast me over, and then in the next room I am to defend my self; but nature and the law of self-defence warranteth me (if I know certainly his aim) to horse him first over the bridge, and then consult how to defend my self at my own leisure.
And as Nature, so the Law saith, When the losses are such as can never be repaired, as Death, Mutilation, lesse of Chastity, Quoniam ⟨p. 338⟩facta infecta fieri nequeunt, things of that kinde once done, can never be undone, we are to prevent the enemy, l. Zonat. tract. defens. par. 3. l. in bello §. factae de capit. notat. Gloss. in l. si quis provocatione. If the King send an Irish Rebell to cast me over a bridge, and drowne me in a water, I am not to do nothing, while the Kings emissary first cast me over, and then in the next room I am to defend my self; but nature and the law of self-defence warranteth me (if I know certainly his ayme) to horse him first over the bridge, and then consult how to defend my selfe at my own leasure.
Royalists object that David in his defence never invaded and persecuted Saul; yea, when he came upon Saul and his men sleeping, he would not kill any; but the Scottish and Parliaments Forces not only defend, but invade, offend, kill and plunder; and this is clearly an offensive, not a defensive war.
Royalists object that David in his defence never invaded and persecuted Saul; yea, when he came upon Saul and his men sleeping, hee would not kill any; but the Scottish and Parliaments Forces not onely defend, but invade, offend, kill and plunder; and this is cleerely an offensive, not a defensive warre.